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Daniel Strauss is a reporter for Talking Points Memo. He was previously a breaking news reporter for The Hill newspaper and has written for Politico, Roll Call, The American Prospect, and Gaper's Block. He has also interned at Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and The New Yorker. Daniel grew up in Chicago and graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in History. At Michigan he helped edit Consider, a weekly opinion magazine. He can be reached at daniel@talkingpointsmemo.com.

Westboro Baptist Church members were met with a notable counter-protest at their first protest since the group's founder died: a sign that read "sorry for your loss."

Counter-protesters held up the sign at a Westboro Baptist Church protest of a Lorde concert in Kansas City, the first protest by the group since founder Fred Phelps died. More than 20 Westboro Baptist Church members were protesting the Lorde concert.

A Tennessee lawmaker doesn't want New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to visit the state because, the lawmaker argued, it would cloud "Tennessee's conservative Republican Party" with a "questionable political figure."

The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) one of the "nastiest and most anti-Tea Party incumbents in America."

That charge came in an endorsement of McConnell's GOP primary opponent, Matt Bevin.

"It's official. We just endorsed conservative Matt Bevin in his race against Mitch McConnell," the Fund said in a statement released by the Bevin campaign. "We are going to launch an unprecedented grassroots campaign to help elect this great man…And he's challenging one of the nastiest and most anti-Tea Party incumbents in America."

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis is under attack from a Republican women's advocacy group — with two men with deep ties to the organization.

The men linked to RedState Women, the group that came under fire for attacking equal pay, are former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) chief of staff Mike Toomey and Dave Carney, who the Dallas Morning News describes as a Texas "political guru." Toomey also previously ran Perry's presidential super PAC in 2012.